COMING SOON: November 20, 2026
Synopsis:
Colony 51 is a novel told through interwoven stories and set in a post-apocalyptic near-future where the people of Perla, a fictional Caribbean island, have been stripped of all rights by the governing mainland. After a worldwide crisis, the island is industrialized and forced to supply foodstuffs and labor to the mainland, its people’s stories erased. Piecing together the storytelling of two girls forced into submission, readers learn the island’s true history. A very timely and powerful story told by Puerto Rican writer Jane Coralin.
Learn more about the author, Jane Coralín
Acquired by Jaded Ibis Press’ Acquisition Editor, Lisa Pegram.
“Like the whorls on a spiral shell, the narratives of this intricate and beautiful novel build and wind, periods of time overlapping and feeding each other, all while telling an urgent and essential story…. Colony 51 is quite possibly the most important Puerto Rican novel of its generation.”
—Ann Dávila Cardinal, award-winning author of The Storyteller’s Death and We Need No Wings
